From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: master 2ed2999: Improve documentation of new Xref options
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 20:40:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37678e59-db6e-deb6-09cd-0df7b34cc848@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB54889A4DCFB207C3C297DD29F3D39@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
On 07.09.2021 20:28, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> If possible, `dired-do-*' commands should
>>> behave similarly. There's value in them
>>> having a consistent interface.
>>>
>>> So much so that I'd say that if some command
>>> has to break this consistency then its name
>>> shouldn't use the prefix `dired-do-'. Just
>>> one opinion, of course.
>>
>> find-tag and find-file also have a matching first word in the name.
>
> Cute, but not very relevant.
>
> The `dired-do-*' commands are a particular subset
> of Dired commands. They all have the same UI.
dired-do-search
dired-do-copy
dired-do-touch
dired-do-print
dired-do-kill-lines
Same UI, right.
> That's not true of Dired commands generally (of
> which there are hundreds).
>
> As Eli suggested (but in my words), this little
> thing is about the Dired UI, not Xref.
>
> (But nothing prevents you from having an alias
> whose name is more Xref-relevant.)
I've explained the distinction, in different terms, at least 4 times
already. Please stop wasting my time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 17:40 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20210905075955.0F6B720A0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2021-09-05 19:38 ` master 2ed2999: Improve documentation of new Xref options Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 4:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 11:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 12:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-06 15:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 13:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 15:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 15:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 15:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 16:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 16:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 17:03 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-07 17:21 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 17:28 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-07 17:40 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2021-09-07 19:44 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-07 20:08 ` ARG and Dired commands, was: " Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 20:42 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-07 20:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-07 21:47 ` Drew Adams
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